Local Visitors and Events Highlight Towa Citizen Notes
Mrs Sharpless visits with friends 10 Moline Bauer Doty of the Oxford Leader visits in this city Doctor S K Degdel of Wappelo Town visits his parents Miss Jessie Overholt travels to Cedar Rapids for a few days Marriage license issued to Joseph Krotz and Bertha Pudi De Voss comedy company performs in Durant audience returns home Clymer Coldren reports Las Vegas Texas trip and wife’s good health Mr and Mrs Clarence Lindsley visit from Rockford due to a relative's accident J Hugh Harrison Davenport Leader editor visits as a notable local newsman with high potential in the field
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Jessie Overholt
Cedar Rapids
Joseph Krotz
Bertha Pudi
Koser
Miss de Voss
Durant
Clymer Coldren
Muscatine
Las Vegas
Tex
Clarence Lindsley
Rockford
Lindsley
Crlil & FP
Albert Lea
J. Hugh Harrison
Davenport Leader
Harrison
Beggar Prince Opera Company to Present Chimes of Normandy
Beggar Prince Opera Co opens its final performances in the city this week with Chimes of Normandy, boasting a fine-voiced company and Gaspar the Miser for lighthearted fun. Season-ticket holders urged to redeem at the advance sale office. Sugar Week offer at the Tea Store, 22 bis granulated sugar for 1.00 with each dollar order.
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Beggar Prince’ Opera Company
Beggar Prince Opera Co
Normandy
Gaspar the Miser
Tom
Regal
Washington Street
Iowa City Ordinance Sets Street Commissioner's Salary
Ordinance No 020 repeals section ten of Ordinance No 40 and replaces it. The Street Commissioner shall receive six hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly. Passed April 3 1903 Published April 6 1903. Mayor F K Sebbins Attest J W Holland City Clerk.
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Iowa City
Iowa
F. K Sebbins
J. W. Holland
Man Cuts Throat Then Seeks Water At Neighbors Home
Homer Dailey, living about three miles from Nichols, tried to end his life by cutting his throat. He walked two miles to a neighbor for water after the act, and said no one else harmed him. Dailey, with partner Deadesley, faced domestic strife over Dailey’s wife. He has three children. prognosis reported as grave.
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Homer Dailey
Nichols
Knesfe
de Voeris
Dailey
Deadesley
Hye
Last Day Tax Payment Extend Due to Roads
Last Saturday marked the final day for paying the first half of 2903 taxes. County Treasurer Reese extended the deadline due to poor road conditions, noting many delinquencies liable for 4 percent delinquent tax. Funds are healthy except the insane fund missing last year's levy. the board will consider remedies at the next session. April will see a busy supervisors agenda led by a $45,600 claim from American Grilge for the Ryerson unit bridge.
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Reese
Board of Supervisors
American Grilge Company
Ryerson
Palm Sunday Observed Across Churches With Confirmations
Palm Sunday ceremonies were held at Trinity, St Wenceslas, St Marys and St Patricks churches with Lutherans, Catholics and Episcopals continuing through Holy Week. At the German Lutheran church Rev Hoerlein led ten confirmands and a Palm Sunday sermon. St Marys reported 600 in attendance with a 24-member choir and blessing of palms before mass. St Patricks noted a solemn palm blessing and musical program.
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Trinnity Church
St. Wencelas
St. Mary’s
St. Patrick’s
J. G. Hoerlein
Hoerlein
Johnniv
Harold Veblen
Hermann William Boys
Karl John Boys
Edward William Muuknoff
Jacob Henry Leuenberger
Edward Witliam Wenzel
Maria Wichelbuine Nass
Gertrude May Poggenpol
Therese Eamthe Schulz
Anna Louise Wenzel
St. Mary's Church
A. J. Schulte
Hasche
St Patrick’s Church
Wara
Prodigy Violinist Emerges From Rock Island Family
A four year old son of C F Tonniges, long time director of Davenport's Sasser band, performed on a quarter sized violin at a Rock Island concert about a week ago. Read well for his age, with good tempo, the child excels in a musical atmosphere. The father is a noted composer famed for the American Beauty march.
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Rock Island
C. F. Tonniges
Iniput City
Toniges
the One
Sasser's
Davenport
United States
Hall to manage Campbell stock farm three thousand acres
E H Hall of Sharon township will sell his stock and move to Independence Indiana to run the large stock farm of A R Campbell renowned Hertford cattle breeder. Campbell owns about 3000 acres with 1000 rented and 3 farms under Hall's supervision. Hall, Ames agricultural college graduate class of 91, is a capable stock manager.
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E. H.hall
Sharon Township
A. R. Campbell
Hertford
Mr. Campbell
Mr. Hall
Tugaway Gone Wrong Injures Pair During Pleasure Drive
A horse bolted during a Friday evening drive, throwing Miss Nellie Walker and striking her head against a telephone pole. Manley Kozer and Mr Eoser were aboard as the carriage lurched forward, the horse rearing and dragging Roser before crashing into a curb.
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Manley Kozer
Nellie Walker
Mr. Eoser
Mr. Roser
Miss Walker
Sterrett Lecture on Cave Dwellers of Asia Minor
John R. Sterrett of Cornell and the American School in Athens will lecture on The Troglodytes of Cappadocia at the Hall of Liberal Arts on Monday April 6 at 8 p.m. He will discuss Asia Minor journeys, inscribed stones, and stereoscopic views of Mt Argaeus dwellings. Also notices on Kindergarten enrollment and two farm horses for sale.
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Iowa Society of the Archeological Institute of America
John Robert Stlington Sterrett
Cornell University
American School of Classical Studies
Athens
Cappadocia
Asia Minor
Hall of Liberal Arts
Sp. m
Sterrett
Turkey
Asia
Constantinople
Babylon
Lystra
St. Paul
Mt. Argaeus
Say She Threw Stones in County Case
Adaline Beemer swore out charges against Mrs. Rose Willick accusing her of assaulting George Kessler with intent to do great bodily harm. Hearing before Squire racks on a Saturday morning bound the defendant over to the grand jury with a 3200 bond. The elderly plaintiff says stones and missiles were hurled at him in his yard. a watchman traced the source of the mischief. The defendant offered no answer.
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Adaline Beemer
Rose Willick
George Kessler
Squire Irack
Grand Jury
Kessler
Markets from PF H Prince broker Iowa City
Quotations from PF H Prince broker and Chicago Board of Trade member provide stocks grain and provisions data. Private wire direct to Chicago with contact via telephone and address 1144 Washington Street Iowa City.
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PF. H.prince
Broker and Commission
Chcago Board of Trade
Chicago
Washington Street
Iowa City
E. H. Prince
Chicago Live Stock Unions Stock Yards Report
Receipts today include hogs 22 000 with lower prices. Cattle 2 000 strong and sheep 3 000 strong. Estimates 15 000 fair with a fair clearance. Mixed and butchers 7.05 to 7.50. Good to choice heavy 7.40 to 7.55. Rough heavy 7.45 to 7.33. Cattle steady. Sheep 3.75 to 7.00. Lambs 5.00 to 7.85. Beeves 3.80 to 5.60. Cows and heifers 1.50 to 4.80. Stockers and feeders 3.00 to 4.65. Texans 3.90 to 4.60.
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Union Stock Yards
Stolen delivery wagon and harness from Katzenmayer barn
Authorities investigate a theft of a delivery wagon and both single and double harnesses from Philip Katzenmayer's barn last Friday night. A party of movers in Iowa City is suspected as tracks indicate a team was used to haul the wagon away. Police and county officials pursue the culprit.
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Philip Katzenmayer
Iowa City
Joy Abroad in the World After Rocky Mountain Tea Loss
Poetry fragment notes happiness spreading as Joy travels the world after the loss of Rocky Mountain Tea by W. W. Morrison. The line expresses a light, airy mood and a broad sense of personal freedom.
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Rocky Mountain
W. W. Morrison
Special Tuesday Excursion Tickets to St Paul and Minneapolis
Special home seekers excursion tickets go on sale on Tuesdays in April May and June from Peeples Stosm Lerrary to St Paul and Minneapolis at one fare plus $2.00 for the round trip.
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St. Paul
Minneapolis
Meeting Call by El Kabir Temple May 13 Cedar Rapids
John W Geiger of El Kabir temple issues a call for a Mystic Shrine meeting in Cedar Rapids on May 13 as the Iowa Retail Grocers Association sessions begin there. The notice outlines ceremonial events, receptions for presidents governors and ex ministers, and mentions El Rahir temple activities at Masonic halls Cedar Rapids. A separate notice seeks a horse rental and two hours daily for Kindergarten use at 215 Fairchild Street.
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el Kabir Temple
Mystic Shrine
Cedar Rapids
John W. Geiger
Iowa Retail Grocer’s Association
Geiger
El-Rahir Temple
Masonic
Recorder
Advertised Letters at Iowa City Post Office 1903 List
List of letters remaining in the post office at Iowa City Iowa dated April 6 1903 for pickup by are calling for these letters. Names include Gents Burger AC Kadler J Gibbert BF Knickerbocker MM Johnson JH Peel J Jones J Roberts Miss E Mrs DM Mrs L M Wedge Mra JD Smith Mrs M Williams Mrs F.
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Iowa City
Iowa
Burger
Kadler
Gibbert
Knickerbocker
Johnson
Peel
Jones
Roberts
Thompson
Dm, Smith
L M
Wedge
Smith
Williams
Life at West Point Cadet Economy and Discipline Tale
An article fragment discusses cadet life at West Point, noting limits on cash and expenses, a superintendent’s stern response to a cadet requesting four shirts, and the need for restraint. It includes a quoted anecdote of a colonel advising thrift during inspection. Also includes a separate tale of a duel-like test and the origin of the phrase give him the sack.
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Military Academy
West Point
Allowannee
New York Tribunes
Soldier Killed in Action Identified as 29th Virginia Rifleman
A surgeon at Drewry's Bluff after a Monday fight found a kneeling soldier with a long gun to his shoulder and a fatal head wound. The man, dead with a closed eye, had a ball through the brain as he sighted on the enemy. The rigid corpse kept hold of the weapon until it was pried away. He was later identified as a member of the twenty-ninth Virginia regiment of infantry.
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Atlanta Intelligencer
Drewry
Twenty-Ninth Virginia Regiment of Infantry
Atlanta Constitution
Amusing Exam Answers From Colored School Girl
A teacher recalls a pupil at a public institution for the higher education of the colored race who, at least eighteen, defined tithe as Pithe and wrote Blest be the tithe that binds. Another reply misdefined upbraid as to braid up and braids the hero who was dead with baronets, provoking amused commentary.
Smell, but Perfect. A mosaic of tiny living creatures.
The passage ponders microscopic life and its vast variety, noting countless animalcules in decayed matter and water, then veers through a quip about secrets, a humorous exchange on Lot’s wife, and a remark on multilingual Caucasus inhabitants.
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Nature
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Liberal Arts Hall
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Fairchild Street
E. Danner
Roule City
Adaline Bemer
Bfirs
Rose Millick
New York
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Philip Katzenmeyer
Church Street
Peeples
Lerrary
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Drake
Mullin & Co
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Graham
People’s Steam Lanno Dry
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Koser & Zeller
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